THUR - PIUG 2022 Virtual

T H U R S D A Y A F T E R N O O N

An Overview of Searching for Prior Act Ron Kaminecki (Kaminecki IP LLC) 1:00 – 1:30 pm ABSTRACT Searches have never been required but have been done in an effort to make it easier for a patent appli cation to work its way through the system and end up in a granted patent. Various changes to the law and court decisions over time have dictated what is necessary in order for a patent application to make it through the system with minimal issues. Over time the system has changed, but searching continues on, with changes in technology which will hopefully keep up with changes in patent prosecution. This presentation will look at how these changes have resulted in new ways of looking at searching.

BIOGRAPHY Ron has been involved with technical and patent information beginning with his work at IIT Research Institute and has continued at different informa tion-intensive companies including Dialog, Knight Ridder Information, Thomson Reuters, ProQuest and Questel and Abbott Laboratories. He currently teaches patent searching at the University of New Hampshire Law School and DePaul Law School, both online and in-person. He is a patent attorney with a BS in Chemistry, an MS in Computer Science and a JD with a Certificate in Patent Law and is also a Qualified Patent Information Professional. He is an inventor, a co-author of a NISO standard for an online search language and has worked as an expert witness. He also serves on various boards and committees in the patent community and on urban preservation. In his spare time, he assembles and fixes electric and acoustic bicycles.

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